Category: Design

  • eReader and Gestural Interaction Projects

    Just want to share the results of the eReader and gestural interaction project I had my Basic Interaction class (undergraduate HCI double majors) do for their final project. This was a six-week project with the following focus: Synthesize needs and opportunities from both potential product users and other sources. Discover the intersection between the needs…

  • I am a Master of Design

    Today I received my diploma. My overly large diploma. The day, as a whole, was a bit surreal.

  • Done with Grad School! (the short post)

    At 10am this morning, I turned in my signed thesis paper and thesis project, making me officially done with grad school. It’s been pretty quiet on this site the past couple weeks as I tried to get everything complete. This short post is meant to break that silence. But as I have spent many sleepless…

  • Richard Buchanan Leaving School of Design

    Today we learned, in an apparent slip, that Richard Buchanan is leaving the School of Design. At the very end of class, in a conversation largely framed around the question of what is design, he mentioned that he would be a professor of information systems, “whatever that means.” There was a pause in the room…

  • Fourth Order Design?

    I’ve heard “fourth order design” thrown around a lot lately. The more I hear it, the more I would rather hear what the the person is really talking about. It makes me wonder whether the term helps clarify anything or actually muddies design. Can we not call design “design”? To a degree, I think that’s…